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Quotes by Irish Authors
"In every pleasure, cruelty has its place..."
"The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said."
"The Federal appropriations process is a marathon, not a sprint, and we are at the beginning of that process."
"Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China."
"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."
"There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed."
"My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn."
"The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins."
"There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity."
"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."
"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
"But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example."
"But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist."
"Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself."
"People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing."
"POZZO:I am blind.(Silence.)ESTRAGON:Perhaps he can see into the future."
"In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'"
"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."
"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
"Imagine you had a friend who was there for you all the time and you were there for them, but they stopped being there for you as much as they used to which you can understand a little because people have things to do, but then they're around less and less no matter how much you try to reach out to them. Then suddenly one day - nothing - they're gone. Just like that. Then you write to them, and you're ignored, and then you write to them again and you're ignored and finally you write to them for a third time and they barely even want to make the appointment, they're so busy with their job, their friends and their car. How would you feel?"
"I don't like lollipops."
"Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity."
"Have you shat, my child, I said gently."
"It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'"
"I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular."
"You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well."
"The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry."
"First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family."
"The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full."
"It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo."
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